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Designing for Situation Awareness: An Approach to User-Centered Design
Author(s): Mica R. Endsley (Author), Betty Bolte (Author), Debra G. Jones (Author)
- Publisher: CRC Press
- Publication Date: 10 July 2003
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 344 pages
- ISBN-10: 074840967X
- ISBN-13: 9780748409679
Book Description
Enhancing Situation Awareness (SA) is a major design goal for projects in many fields, including aviation, ground transportation, air traffic control, nuclear power, and medicine, but little information exists in an integral format to support this goal. Designing for Situation Awareness helps designers understand how people acquire and interpret information in complex settings and recognize the factors that undermine this process. Designing to support operator SA reduces the incidence of human error, which has been found to occur largely due to failures in SA. Whereas many previous human factors efforts have focused on design at the perceptual and surface feature level, SA-oriented design focuses on the operator’s information needs and cognitive processes as they juggle to integrate information from many sources and achieve multiple competing goals. Thus it addresses design from a system’s perspective. By applying theoretical and empirical information on SA to the system design process, human factors practitioners can create designs to support SA across a wide variety of domains and design issues. This book serves as a helpful reference to that end.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“I found the book to be useful … . … [T]he topics cover many of the most important aspects of the design of complex systems, and the focus on SA provides a useful way to direct system design. The examples of display designs and actual design tools should spark ideas in those involved in system design, and the … task analysis of commercial airline pilot SA requirements, provided as an appendix, should prove useful to anyone involved in flight deck research.” – Ergonomics in Design, Summer 2004
About the Author
Endsley; Mica R. SA Technologies, Marietta, Georgia, USA,
